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US 8,207,669 · App. 12/467,936 · Granted Jun 26, 2012

Organic light emitting display device including spacers and fillers

Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,207,669
App. No.
12/467,936
Granted
Jun 26, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of organic light emitting devices on the first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite and substantially parallel to the first substrate with the organic light emitting devices therebetween, a plurality of spacers between the organic light emitting devices and the second substrate, and a plurality of fillers alternately arranged with the spacers and configured to fill in space between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least portions of the spacers overlap with a plurality of light emitting regions corresponding to the organic light emitting devices. The spacers and fillers are composed of transparent materials having refractive indexes similar to each other so that visibility and image quality are not lowered and the distance between the substrates is substantially constant.

Claims (31)

1. An organic light emitting display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a plurality of organic light emitting devices on the first substrate, the organic light emitting devices comprising:

a plurality of first electrodes on the first substrate;

a plurality of organic light emitting layers on the first electrodes; and

at least one second electrode on the organic light emitting layers;

a second substrate arranged opposite and substantially parallel to the first substrate with the organic light emitting devices therebetween;

a plurality of spacers between the organic light emitting devices and the second substrate; and

a plurality of fillers alternately arranged with the spacers and configured to fill in space between the first substrate and the second substrate,

wherein at least portions of the spacers overlap with a plurality of light emitting regions defined by the organic light emitting layers and the first electrodes,

wherein the spacers and fillers contact the at least one second electrode, and

wherein the spacers and the fillers have a transmittance between about 70% to 100%, and a difference in a refractive index between the spacers and the fillers is between about 0.01 to 0.4.

2. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , wherein the spacers are on the second substrate.

3. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , wherein a width of the spacers is greater than an interval between the organic light emitting devices.

4. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , wherein the refractive index of the spacers is between about 1.3 to 1.7.

5. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 4 , wherein the spacers comprise photosensitive resin.

6. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 5 , wherein the photosensitive resin comprises a binder composition, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator.

7. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 5 , wherein the photosensitive resin is made of polyimide resin, silicon, epoxy, acrylate resin, diazo resin, azide resin, polyvinyl based resin, polyester resin, or carboxyl based resin.

8. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of pixel defining layers on the first substrate alternatingly arranged with the first electrodes,

wherein the at least one second electrode is on the pixel defining layers, and

wherein the spacers contact the second substrate.

9. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 8 , further comprising:

a thin film transistor connected to each of the first electrodes.

10. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 9 , wherein the thin film transistor comprises:

a semiconductor layer including a source region, a drain region and a channel region;

a gate electrode insulated from the semiconductor layer by a gate insulating layer; and

a source electrode coupled to the source region of the semiconductor layer and a drain electrode coupled to the drain region of the semiconductor layer,

wherein one of the source electrode or the drain electrode is coupled to corresponding one of the first electrodes.

11. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first substrate is bonded to the second substrate utilizing the fillers.

12. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a sealing material between the first substrate and the second substrate configured to surround the organic light emitting devices.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Aug 29, 2012
From: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 028884/0128 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2009
From: LEE, SO-YOUNG; LEE, SUN-YOUNG; CHO, YOON-HYEUNG; OH, MIN-HO; LEE, BYOUNG-DUK; LEE, JONG-HYUK
To: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 022760/0471 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2008-0123827 · Dec 8, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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